New Norms for Recruitment by UGC

Doctoral degree holders from the top 500 foreign universities are now eligible for direct recruitment as an assistant professor in Indian varsities, according to the UGC.

According to the new recruitment norms, the top 500 ranking of the university shall be referred from four famous world university ranking systems — Quacquarelli Symonds, Times Higher Education rankings, and the Academic Ranking of World Universities of the Shanghai Jiao Tong University.